Is SPIN really circling the drain?

By my count four issues since the re-design, looking Interview-sized? Mar/Apr, May/Jun, Jul/Aug, Sep/Oct.

When will "each" digital-only "issue" be "published", or is this the wrong way to think about it?

one listicle slide every four minutes

Gwah-lee!

Sleigh Bells, Waka, Azealia, and what was the other issue?

what's the cover of the last print magazine?

i bought the azelia banks issue and liked it

i want to buy the last spin

very sentimental abt that magazine and seemed like it was getting better recently

Anyone remember RECORD magazine? When that went out of business in '85, SPIN picked up my subscription. Wish it would go full circle and a magazine as good as RECORD picked up the sub.

I thought the Banks ish was the last one

:(

magazines

*gets behind paywall*

Sleigh Bells, Waka, Azealia, and what was the other issue?

― "poop floats" starring sandra buttock (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:16 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Best Coast/Wavves was in between Waka and Azealia

dayum. :(

if i'd have kept all of my copies from my high school and lolcollege years, I'd probably have had a full run from about 1992 until the Waka issue. sad to hear this. still wishing my Nook subscription wouldn't have gotten yanked after only two of the reformatted issues though. i'm guessing that has something to do with why "SPIN Play for iPad" is singled out in that press release.

how are other magazines with lower profiles than spin able to stay profitable?

can we get a roll call of national music mags that ARE still doing print issues? because i can't think of many.

fader

rolling stone

filter

yeah fader, rolling stone, xxl, the source (lol), i guess there have to be more. every time i think one of the mid-sized alt mags like magnet is still publishing it turns out they're not.

the metal ones seems to be going strong. why not merge with a metal magazine?

Spinning Metal Blade Magazine

does mojo make money cuz Old dudes like paper

the metal ones seems to be going strong. why not merge with a metal magazine?

Decibel's circulation is way smaller than you think; Revolver cut back from monthly to bi-monthly, and might be disappearing soon; Metal Edge (the one I ran) shut its doors in 2009.

hip-hop weekly?

http://www.hiphopweekly.com/100303-newsite/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Bobbi-Kristina-Dec-4-cover.jpg

Rather than web sites, I think a lot of magazines could do well with e-reader subscriptions. I got the last 2 issues of Spin on my kindle and barely touched the print copy. Few magazines are properly marketing that angle though.

http://www.thedailyswarm.com/headlines/spin-dead-long-live-car-and-driver/

kinda lol but mostly sad

not at all lol unfortunately. very sad though and I agree that I can't exactly find any other magazine I'd prefer? Except i sure as fuck don't want car and driver.

covettes are p cool

that's amazing

"hmmm, what are some things that spin? wheels on cars, they spin!"

sorry, but i'm legally obligated to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9P8FzF6d5s

man I would not have been sad about this prior to the Chris W editorship but the redesigned SPIN has been a very nice thing - I always feel a sort of "local" internet pride when I see it in airports. The redesign was A+. The "you'll get a different mag" is a weird look (in my experience that means that subscribers will find their names in very deep junk mail lists from which they'll never get purged) but whatever. RIP Spin your final fit was terrific.

I'd second all that except that this final coda is weaksauce

I remember driving across town to find a remaining copy of SPIN's first issue. I subscribed after that, and had every issue up until some time in the late 90's.

At some point I lost the early issue that had ZZ Top on the cover, and it always bothered me that it was gone.

I lost sub issues to cancelled Your Flesh, Flipside, Hong Kong Action, Hard Case Crime, Some Boring Indie Alt-Country mag, and was always a dick to the editor/publishers, but nobody ever tried to send me a Motor Trend, or Autobuy instead.

Mags I've handled at my job lately. Filter, Iron Fist[looking forward to reading this], Decibel, AP, Relix, Wire, Mojo, Uncut, Record Collector, BBC Classical, Grammaphone, various guitar mags, Source, XXL, Vibe, Hip-Hop Weekly, Billboard, DJ mix, various computer music making mags, Mix Mag, Prog, Blues, Rock Sound, special issues about zeppelin, paul weller, beatles, joy division, Piano International, Downbeat, Opera Digest, audiophile stuffs, ONE DIRECTION SPECIAL, Word[gone], Spin[ha],

Mags that come to my house. Big Takeover[barely read anymore], Razorcake[depresses me for my own lack of trying].

I don't have much else to say. I was a participant and an observer. I stopped buying and they stopped delivering.

i still have tons of 80's spins in the store if anyone wants to come smell them. they are all perfect kinda. weird when someone brought them in they looked like they were right off the newsstand. i only buy ugly things but that only comes out like twice a year. i feel like i should buy wax poetics but i never do. i would buy mojo and the wire if they sold them in my town. wait, why don't i sell them in my town...and decibel too...i'm kinda dumb. they didn't sell spin anywhere in our town. i would have bought a whiney copy.

Ugh for pete's sake who in their fucking right mind decided that Car & Driver would be a suitable replacement?

the news is sad but the lols of the car & driver replacement attempt cannot be denied

I hope they do something about the horribly clunky design of the Spin website. If not I could see the whole enterprise disappearing sooner rather than later.

I had a subscription so I may actually be disappointed if I don't get a C&D

well, this took longer than I thought it would.

got my goddamned car and driver today
will be speaking with my congressman
by which i mean whiney

B-b-but where will the doughy weekend warriors send their indie rock demo tapes now?

Motor Trend

oh man I am going to direct Aerosmith's publicist to send promos and press releases to Motor Trend for the rest of my life and leave instructions in my will that this is to continue until the money I set aside for post-mortem publicity runs out

truly living (and afterliving) on the edge.

putting steve salas and eric johnson on a list of stevie ray wannabes shows a really fundamental misunderstanding of 80s guitar mag dudes >:(

http://www.spin.com/articles/stevie-ray-vaughan-white-blues-guitar-texas-flood-reissue

Yeah, and that's the whole text--? Nice pix, esp, the John Mayer triptych, although it needs an UPDATE! HE'S CUT HIS HAIR! OH NOOOO! But none of the sometimes beyond-marginal distinctions of style and quality. I've heard Eric Johnson go for an Extrapolation-era McLaughlin vibe, for inst. Eric Sardinas' studio work, esp. his increasingly reliable vocals and songwriting, sounds less and less like Vaughn's. Live, he can do brilliant edits of Vaughn's own live guitar extravaganzas--seems less like wannabbeizm than the "expert mash-ups of Sonic Youth (etc.)" that Parquet Courts get praised for, in this same issue.

i guess i think of johnson as a more of an american vibe like, i dunno, allan holdworth with more of an 80s rock vibe or something, not really a blues dude

true, from when I heard him live anyway: not blues-rock, but some kind of pre-suck cosmic jazz-rock, is what I meant by Extrapolation-era etc.